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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A spinet is an obsolete instrument, =
smaller than an
harpsichord, sounded by a quill plectrum. It comes from the Latin SPINA, =
a
thorn. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To say that a small piano is a spinet, =
is wrong.
Spinet-like, or spinet-shaped would be correct.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's like saying my girlfriend Gaye, =
is a
Lesbian, and she is far from it; or that the great composer and author =
John Gay,
was homosexual.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kenny Finlayson, =
RPT</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>